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QUOTATION:Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
ATTRIBUTION:[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870–1916), Scottish author. Reginald, in “Reginald at the Carlton,” Reginald (1904).
 
 
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